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    The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment

    Written by Dave Eggers

    Narrated by John Hodgman

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    About this audiobook

    A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster.

    When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law, and though he has often remarked he doesn't much like boats, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain thrills his passengers, writing his dreams and notions on the cafeteria wipe-away board, boasting of his exemplary anatomy, devouring cheeseburgers, and tossing overboard anyone who displeases him. Until one day a famous pirate, long feared by passengers of the Glory but revered by the Captain for how phenomenally masculine he looked without a shirt while riding a horse, appears on the horizon . . .

    Absurd, hilarious, and all too recognizable, The Captain and the Glory is a wicked farce of contemporary America only Dave Eggers could dream up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 19, 2019
    ISBN9780593215029
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    The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment
    Author

    Dave Eggers

    Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney’s, a quarterly journal and website (www.mcsweeneys.net), and his books include You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, What is the What, and the bestselling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and Ocean Navigator. He is the recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a 2001 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Northern California.

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    • 2/5
      I have read and enjoyed at least one earlier Book by Evers, which I found very satisfying. This one not so much. It felt like 10th grade. I didn’t finish it.
    • 5/5
      It is good good very very good it sounds grate
    • 1/5
      Don't waste your time. The author tries to be clever but fails miserably. But wait--it is so bad that I'm not sure if the author was even trying. The entire book feels as if it were penned by a 13 year old who watches too much 24 hour cable news. In the end, what you were hoping to be rip-roaring hilarity comes across as pitiful pouting. Do yourself a favor and skip this one.

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